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The Austin 8 is a small car which was produced by Austin between 1939 and 1948.. Launched on 24 February 1939, [3] production continued into the war until 1943. Approximately 9,000 - 9,500 of the wartime Austin models were two-seater military 8AP tourers produced for the armed services and government, and the rest were four light saloons, six light saloons, two and four seater tourers and vans.
In 1951 Darrin designed the Kaiser Manhattan, which had a fiberglass body. In 1952 the sports car Kaiser Darrin was presented. [4] This car competed with the Chevrolet Corvette and was marketed as an alternative to spartan foreign roadsters such as MGs and Austin Healeys. [4] His last car was the DKW Flintridge, an open two seater.
The Rochdale company was founded in 1948 by Frank Butterworth and Harry Smith in an old mill building in Hudson Street, Rochdale. They performed general motor repairs and made themselves some alloy bodies, usually single-seaters, for racing Austin 7s and other cars. They went on to sell the bodies as the Mk II.
See Austin A40 for other A40 models and Austin A40 Sports for the sports car version of the Devon.. The A40 Devon (and similar 2-door A40 Dorset) are automobiles that were marketed by Austin from 1947 to 1952 – the first post-war saloons to be produced by Austin – featuring a mix of old and new technologies.
After Morris Motors merged with the Austin Motor Company in 1954, forming together the British Motor Corporation, the Morris FV was also available with an Austin badge. In 1955 the truck was again modified, emerging as the Morris/Austin FE. [2] The forward control cab configuration was an innovative feature when the FV was introduced in 1948 ...
The Austin A70 Hampshire and later Austin A70 Hereford are cars that were produced by Austin of Britain from 1948 until 1954. They were conventional body-on-frame cars with similar styling to the smaller A40 Devon and A40 Somerset models respectively, though with an entirely different larger and wider body on chassis construction. 85,682 were built.
It isn’t 1948," Austin said in a speech at his alma mater, referencing the year that President Harry Truman desegregated the military. "It is 2024." More: Shaking up the Pentagon? A look at Pete ...
Replica of Lotus Mark I. The Lotus Mark I was the first car designed and built by Colin Chapman in 1948, while Chapman was still a student at the University of London.The car was designed to compete as a trials car, and was constructed on an Austin 7 chassis and running gear and given registration number OX 9292. [1]